Stay home they said….you won’t get sick they said……I refuse to listen to any more of their “Do this or that” propaganda. More political than healthy. To keep myself occupied at home I tried to do things to help my teachers but didn’t have much to do from home. Time on my hands. For years,…
Before I started counseling I learned that to change your actions you need to change your thoughts. I intellectually got it but something seemed missing. I didn’t realize the thing missing was my own connection to my emotions. Counseling shed light into the dark parts of my mind and helped me start to connect my…
What if you don’t know what is wrong with you. I first noticed that there was something different about me when I was a teenager. I listened to my friends talk about crushes, school, and family I felt totally out of the loop. I was fascinated by their perspective but my concerns and worries didn’t…
A friend posts excellent stuff on line for CPTSD. One of the topics that I struggle with is toxic shame. https://blogs.psychcentral.com/psychology-self/2019/01/toxic-chronic-shame/ Hard thing is when I do something wrong there is regular shame which is Jiminy Cricket reminding me what I need to do to correct my poor choices. If I hurt someone I feel…
I actually maintain 3 different blogs. My picture blog I’ve hardly touched in a year. I kept getting it more and more complicated until I found I couldn’t keep up with it any more. It started out 1 picture a day….then I made it more complicated. I have my We are One blog and it…
I spent a bunch of my counseling with homework reading books. I have some of them listed on my resource page. https://ptsd-acceptingcopingthriving.com/resources/books/ I shared the books I thought were helpful. I did not make a complete list of everything I read. Too much to share and some of it I actually threw the book across…
A friend posted 8 things kids do that are actually anxiety in disguise. I read the list and decided I do most of them at different times. I followed the link on the meme to find the original posting. 8 Ways A Child’s Anxiety Shows Up as Something Else I like that they have linked…
We had several dogs in our home. One dog was very unusual. A beautiful German Shepherd flunked out of the seeing eye program. The dog found a forever home with us. Before I knew I had PTSD, looking back I realized our dog behaved like a PTSD trained dog without the training. He would nudge…
One of the biggest obstacles I had to over come was my own rejection of my emotions. My hero in high school was Mr. Spock because he had no feelings. I felt totally betrayed when one episode showed him raging with anger. I was told over and over again stupid people got bored. I was…
If you follow other blogs or groups online eventually you will come across someone recommending Pete Walker or one of his books. Someone asked me if I read his books when I was in counseling….no. He hadn’t written them yet. When I started my therapy, Complex PTSD wasn’t on the horizon yet. My counselor reluctantly…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 